Living Rent

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A petition has been launched to call on the City of Edinburgh Council to provide support for families facing eviction from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s Dreghorn Estate in Lochend.  The DIO is selling property deemed surplus to requirements and as a result, 47 families are con

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The number of times councils in Scotland have breached their legal duty to provide accommodation for vulnerable people has quadrupled in a year, according to new statistics. Figures show 7,545 breaches were recorded last year, a sharp rise from 2,000 in the six-month period between April and Septemb

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Members of Living Rent, Scotland’s tenants’ union, are demanding that the City of Edinburgh Council commit to spending more money of the tourist tax revenue on social housing. The levy, introduced in legislation by the Scottish Government giving the councils to charge visitors for overni

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Mel Esquerre, an Edinburgh resident and retrofit campaigner, shares her experience of the City of Edinburgh Council's Mixed Tenure Improvement Service (MTIS) scheme and her concerns that people are being harmed as a result. In the last month alone, five different neighbours have approached me, anxio

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Tenants' union Living Rent presented a deputation to Glasgow City Council’s Economy, Housing, Transport and Regeneration City Policy Committee yesterday to call on the local authority to implement the NPF4 and enforce a minimum of 25% affordable housing in all new housing developments.

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Housing bodies have welcomed the 2024-25 Programme for Government (PfG) for acknowledging the reality of the country’s housing emergency but the Scottish Government has been criticised for failing to make up for delays to funding for new homes. Outlining his first PfG as first minister, John S

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